in this election musabi was trumped by mahmoud ahmadinejad, which makes sense. now it is the equivalent of barack obama losing to mccain in 2008. it doesn't add up. many examples of this. quite frankly, after the elections have been held, the fact that all of the reformist candidates and opposition candidates, many of them, the activists have been imprisoned, beaten in the streets, this leads me to believe that this action was not real. host: next up, howard from ham den, connecticut on the line. caller: i don't see all this propaganda. i know those in the united states are inciting this whole thing. i ask you what is the difference? every time there is an election. doesn't matter -- it is hamas, or ahmadinejad. look at south america. they don't like anybody being elected because people want to do their own thing. we keep interfering. who interferes with our elections when they're being rigged up like 2004. we can't police the whole world. why don't you guys talk about the problems in peru that we are behind that, too. host: are you still with me? caller: yes. h

musabi would have the greatest chance of standing up against ahmadinejad. we're talking about the fractions within the regime, the power elite. you hear the name of a former iranian president who backed -- i think what they underestimated was the way that people would react to how these elections were presented. i don't think it is necessarily the result that mr. ahmadinejad has. i think the margin is something people could not believe and the speed it was announced and the way it was officially announced and ratified by the chamber that mr. ahmadinejad is the president and congratulated him as though it was all of this that really angered people. you got to remember, they only get a small window of opportunity in this type of regime to voice your concern. they felt extremely cheated and given the frustrations that they have, that is what they underestimated, more than anything else. >> how long do you suppose iotola will listen to the people's upsetness or displeasure before he decided to seriously get help? jshgsz. >> the regime has to measures. it is unf

musabi, the main challenger, is saying i don't need anyone's support outside of iran. this is an issue for the iranian people. thoen these kind of movements, it could be the challenger's hand in a mass rally. it could be any given moment that changes the mood of the movement and turns it into something nobody could ever calculate. he goes back and makes the point of the revolution of 1979, that not many people in the u.s. including the cia expected that to take place. this is a dilemma and challenge the white house is facing. do you see what you want to get whether? do you think it is credible enough to seize that moment? as president obama has insisted, given the history of iran-u.s. relations. host: second call from chicago is from gene on the line per independents. welcome. caller: 90% of americans don't know what the usz has done since 1963. this has been festering all of those years. not only iran. the united states has done this in many countries to keep in power the complex and all the republican-type people who are brain washed and said kill, kill, kill, take o

few saaby is claiming the -- musabi is claiming that -- people went to vote. he is calling upon his supporters to remain vocal and protest the results of this election, and they are turning out in the tens of thousands but many have been killed. in response, president ahmadinejad has tried to minimize anyone with an opposing viewpoint, physical threatening any form of dissent and shutting out the media and communications. the accusations of voter irregularities should be investigated, a fact supported by vice president biden. but until the selection is certified the people of iran should be -- should be able to protest, if they so choose. and they should protest with violence without them. i call on our president to not be timid but to speak out firmly. it is either a democracy with a legitimate government or it is a tyrannical dictatorship. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from maryland rise? >> i ask permission to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.